abd-cost-of-delay

Manual: ./manual/index.html

Purpose

Teams routinely prioritize work by gut feel, stakeholder loudness, or first-in-first-out — all of which ignore how much value decays while items wait to be delivered. Cost of Delay puts a price tag on time so teams can make scheduling decisions based on economics rather than politics.

This skill packages that method, it classifies the value type and urgency of each feature or initiative in context, then builds a simple value model that makes assumptions explicit, calculatse Cost of Delay per time period (month / week), and divides value by time by duration to get Cost of Delay Divided By Duration (CD3), and rank so the highest-value shortest-duration work goes first.

When to use this skill

Load this skill when any of the following apply:

• You have a backlog of features, epics, or initiatives and need to order them by economic value rather than opinion or arrival order.
• You want to make a trade-off decision between competing items — what is the cost of doing A before B?
• You need a collaborative, assumption-explicit value estimate that a cross-functional group can produce in a time-boxed session.
• You already have lead time and delay time estimates and want to score and rank items using CD3.
• You want to compare items already scored with CD3 against a new candidate.